I am going to take a quick step back into ancient history and publish this post I made forever ago, but never published for some reason. This is post 4 from our California Christmas 2007 series, you can click on Vacation in labels if you wish to read the preceding post.
An Unnatural occurrence!
An Unnatural occurrence!
The day after Christmas Grandpa and Grammie tried to take us to Big Trees, to see the giant Red Woods. On the way up the mountain it started snowing! As a matter of fact it started snowing hard enough that traffic control made us turn around because we did not have chains on our tires; but that did not matter to us Texans, it was snowing!!! You are more likely to see a Solar eclipse then snow in South Texas, so this was a big treat for us!
Texans in the snow!
On our way down the mountain we stopped for hamburgers, so we Texans got to get out and come in contact with this extraterrestrial substance. The first thing we did was start a snow fight (go figure). After our fingers were too frozen to pick up and throw anything anymore, hostilities ceased enough to take this picture.
Moments before the cascarona snow ball was invented... hehehe. This picture was taken just a split second to early to document this
momentous occasion in human history.
Goofy girl
Snow cowboy
Go Texas!
This is our ugly little snowman. We used all the good clean snow in our war, so he got the left overs. This picture almost creates an optical allusion and makes him look big, in reality he was about ten inches tall.
Mommy in her element (snow) eating ice cream. The rest of us are not shown in this picture, but we are somewhere out of our element and drinking hot chocolate.
After a few more serious snow ball wars, the adults were able to pull us out of what little snow remained in the little restaurant's parking lot and we were back on our way down the mountain.
Next we went to Iron Stone Winery and Museum
One of the biggest gold nuggets in the world
A really nice saddle they had in the museum, that the girls really liked. It looks like it could have belonged to Trigger!
Cowboy Calvin and Sir Oliver of ...something.
The dining room with a very impressive organ.
Johanna next to a very nice grand piano on which she played some of Chopin's Fantasy Impromtu.
Robert honking a lions nose?
He looks like a real catch doesn't he? But let me tell you, in reality he turned out to be no more than a hard headed, iron fisted, cold hearted, shell!
Mum and Dad with twinkling Christmas lights.
1 comment:
I wonder if anyone else has seen this yet, or if it is merely the fact that it is ancient history that has kept people from commenting on it. Even though the post did not see the light of day till recently.
John Calvin.
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